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1 Thaler - Johann Christian and Georg Rudolf

Issuer Duchy of Liegnitz-Brieg (Silesia)
Year 1609
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Value 1 Thaler
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Obverse script Latin
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Reverse lettering DVC. SIL. LIG. ET. BREG. 609 CT
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Johann Christian and Georg Rudolf were the sons of Joachim Friedrich of Liegnitz-Brieg, and their joint rule from 1602 followed the dynastic practice of undivided co-rulership that the Piast dukes of Silesian Liegnitz-Brieg had maintained for generations as a buffer against Habsburg absorption. The arrangement was uneasy — Georg Rudolf would eventually align more closely with the Habsburgs while Johann Christian leaned toward Protestant resistance, a tension that foreshadowed the catastrophic choices the duchy faced as the Thirty Years' War approached.

1609 was the year of the Hohenzollern succession crisis in Jülich-Cleves, which sharpened confessional anxieties across the Empire and made thaler production by Protestant princes a quietly political act.

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